How Denying the Science of Sex Harms Social Progress: The case against the new sexual “blank-slatism”

Dr. Carole Hooven, author of “T: the Story of Testosterone,” will speak on the science of sex.   The talk will explore the emergence of a rigid form of “sexual blank-slatism”—the idea that sex differences in behavior, psychology, and preferences are entirely (or nearly entirely) the product of culture and socialization—and how it has contributed to the rise of phenomena like “MAGA masculinity” and has fueled growing distrust in science, academia and the political left.

Hooven is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, an associate in Harvard’s department of psychology, and an active member of Harvard’s Council on Academic Freedom. She retired recently from over 20 years as an award-winning educator (and co-director of undergraduate studies) in the Department of Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, where she also received her Ph.D.

The talk will also be livestreamed; please register to participate online at: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lrrhFp2PTde1u08wNZTyZA.